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How To Install Sphinx On Ubuntu 10.10

First of all, this is my
first post and I apologize for the bad English.

Sphinx is a full-text search engine,
publicly distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial licensing (eg.
for embedded use) is available upon request. You can use Sphinx for creating big
data indexes. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC.

If you use Ubuntu 10.10, you can use

sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch

to install Sphinx.

Sphinx uses a configuration file
(/etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf). You should adjust this file to
your configuration.

vi /etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf

The conf file consists out of four parts:

source: data source definition

index: index settings for your data
source

indexer: consists out of indexer settings
(cause path, charset and so on)